Radio Supernovae and the Square Kilometer Array

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1999-11-07

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9911114v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

10 pages, 5 figures, to appear in "Scientific Imperatives at cm and m Wavelengths," NFRA Perspectives on Radio Astronomy confe

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Detailed radio observations of extragalactic supernovae are critical to obtaining valuable information about the nature and evolutionary phase of the progenitor star in the period of a few hundred to several tens-of-thousands of years before explosion. Additionally, radio observations of old supernovae (>20 years) provide important clues to the evolution of supernovae into supernova remnants, a gap of almost 300 years (SN ~1680=Cas A, to SN 1923A) in our current knowledge. Finally, new empirical relations indicate that it may be possible to use some types of radio supernovae as distance yardsticks, to give an independent measure of the distance scale of the Universe. However, the study of radio supernovae is limited by the sensitivity and resolution of current radio telescope arrays. Therefore, it is necessary to have more sensitive arrays, such as the Square Kilometer Array and the several other radio telescope upgrade proposals, to advance radio supernova studies and our understanding of supernovae, their progenitors, and the connection to supernova remnants.

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